arch checking on depends_build

[Jeremy Huddleston]

Was this ever addressed?  If so, can someone point me to some info about it because I missed it.  I found another case where we might want to say "I don't care".  Totem (media player) pulls in a bunch of plugins.  Some of these don't build for certain archs, but we don't care because they're plugins and we just won't have support for <insert some rarely used video format here> when running in some arch:

Portfile changed since last build; discarding previous state.
--->  Computing dependencies for totem.
Error: Cannot install totem for the arch(s) 'i386 x86_64' because
Error: its dependency gst-plugins-bad does not build for the required arch(s) by default
Error: and does not have a universal variant.
Error: Unable to execute port: architecture mismatch
To report a bug, see <http://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets>



On May 29, 2010, at 13:06, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:

> We can handle packages that have not architecture (xorg protos and other "data" ports), but there doesn't seem to be a way to work around needing an executable (don't care about arch) as a build dependency...  Eg:
> 
> $ sudo port -v install xulrunner-devel +internal_dependencies
> Error: Cannot install xulrunner-devel for the arch(s) 'i386' because
> Error: its dependency autoconf213 is only installed for the arch 'x86_64'
> Error: and does not have a universal variant.
> Error: Unable to execute port: architecture mismatch
> To report a bug, see <http://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets>
> 
> $ sudo port -v install xorg-server
> Error: Cannot install xorg-server for the arch(s) 'i386 x86_64' because
> Error: its dependency doxygen is only installed for the arch 'x86_64'
> Error: and does not have a universal variant.
> Error: Unable to execute port: architecture mismatch
> To report a bug, see <http://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets>
> 
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